perplexed - Story 104477 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The sleek black envelope slid through the mail slot, landing with a soft thud on the hardwood floor. It was addressed to "Mr. Alistair Finch," at *her* address. Emily bent down, picking it up. She hadn’t lived at this place that long, but she had never heard the name. The envelope felt thick, substantial.

She walked over to the kitchen island, placing the envelope in front of her. Something about the way it felt in her hands set her teeth on edge. She studied the script on the front. Who was Alistair Finch?

With trembling hands, she ripped it open. Inside was a single, folded sheet of paper.

Emotion: perplexed

Cluster: Surprise / Confusion

PC1 (Valence): -1.42 Negative

PC2 (Disposition): -0.16

Role in Research

This story is one of 1,000 stories generated for the emotion perplexed. During extraction, it was fed through Gemma4-31B and its hidden state activations were captured at 11 layers.

The mean activation across all 1,000 perplexed stories, after denoising with neutral dialogue baselines, produces the perplexed emotion vector -- a direction in the model's 5,376-dimensional representation space.

Logit Lens (Layer 40)

Tokens promoted/suppressed when the perplexed vector is projected through the unembedding matrix.

Promoted:

`🤔`	0.330
`L`	0.300
`🤔`	0.296
`S`	0.273
`que`	0.264

Suppressed:

`மகி`	-0.227
`rest`	-0.222
`ecstatic`	-0.212
`alleviate`	-0.210
`uplifting`	-0.196